Alito wallows in self-pity while women's lives are in jeopardy
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is feeling extremely persecuted these days, and the Wall Street Journal is there for him, amplifying his every complaint. It’s also there to gloss over suggestions...
View ArticleClergy as activists: portrait of a pre-Roe abortion trafficker.
This is the Reverend Kearney Kirkby (b.1914—d.2002). He was a Methodist minister, and he led the Saginaw State Street United Methodist Church in Saginaw, Michigan, from 1967 to 1973.The pre-Roe v. Wade...
View ArticleGood News Roundup for May 9, 2023
Good morning, Gnusies! I hope it’s a better morning for you than it is for me — I have a nasty cold (not Covid, fortunately) that’s been sapping my energy. Niftywriter has kindly offered to take over...
View ArticleNC-Gov: Charlamagne Tha God Slams "Donkey" Robinson (R) For Saying Black...
In case you didn’t know about this:xWOW! This Black Republican candidate for Governor says it’s Black Americans that owe REPARATIONS to this country for our “freedom.” That’s a new take....
View ArticleThe GOP’s new reproductive rally cry: Party like it’s 1873
The GOP has an arsenal of legal cases in the works designed to achieve their ultimate goal of banning abortion nationwide. Some of these cases, like the mifepristone case, will rely on the Comstock...
View ArticleIn Idaho, Taking a Minor Out of State for an Abortion Is Now a Crime:...
By Sarah VarneyxxYouTube VideoMOSCOW, Idaho — Mackenzie Davidson grew up in a Mormon household and sheepishly admits she knew little about pregnancy.“This is embarrassing,” she said, sitting outside a...
View ArticleBeing "pro-life" actually is not being pro-life.
Hey, ultra right-wing religious extremists...I am just curious! Can any of you give me a straight answer to any (or all) of these questions? Probably not?
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Will Doctors Stand Up for Good Medicine?
I am reposting an essay I wrote on my blog more than 10 years ago because the (usually Republican) war on women's reproductive rights has unbelievably accelerated since then. That's the bad news. The...
View ArticleTaking Stock of the State of Motherhood on Mother’s Day: Bleak
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comThe radical rightwing war on women is targeting mothers particularly and specifically. This Mother’s Day passed with some horrendous markers:Maternal mortality...
View ArticleCartoon: Overreaching
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There's good reason to believe rising violence and threats against abortion...
“Since 1977, there have been 11 murders, 42 bombings, 200 arsons, 531 assaults, 492 clinic invasions, 375 burglaries, and thousands of other incidents of criminal activities directed at patients,...
View ArticleThe Case for “Going Too Far”
I recently made the argument that the things progresses are trying to achieve are inevitable, and that we need to frame them as such in order to gain ground and move the Overton Window. This progress...
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Impressions from Knocking on Doors in the Spring in AZ, FL, GA, NC, NV, OH,...
A commenter asked, “any general sense from the week?” it was a great question, but it was asked (and answered) at a time when i was thinking about (in a mild sense, worried about) getting all our...
View ArticleVideo: Tim Scott snaps at female reporter to mansplain abortion
The Republican Party knows it has a fundamental problem: We live in a democracy, but the party’s ideas and “policies” are unpopular. This was most recently exposed in 2022, as Americans showed up to...
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ACM: Continued Attacks on the Right to Bodily Autonomy in the US
Almost one year has passed since the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overturned both Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood which had codified the right of abortion on a national level;...
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This week in the War on Women: June 17th edition
MMIW CRISIS Unseen: Missing, murdered Indigenous women in California part of nationwide crisisKLAMATH, Del Norte County -- It is a brutal and silent crisis: the growing number of missing or murdered...
View ArticleRepublicans are digging own grave on abortion
One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ended abortion rights for millions, turning the issue back to the states. Republican states responded with a vengeance, with 18 states enacting bans and trying to...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Today is the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Half the states, containing 25 million women, now have restrictions on abortion. (Handy map.) Fourteen states ban...
View ArticleOne year after Dobbs, the horror stories are everywhere—and it will only get...
One year after the Supreme Court struck down federal abortion protection with its June 24, 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the issue is as salient to voters as ever. It still hasn’t...
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Reproductive Freedom: The Democrat's Ace in the Hole
Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers resumed knocking on doors this weekend in Virginia. Virginia has state legislative races this year, and its General Assembly is split — Republicans is one seat...
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